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The Milwaukee Leader
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
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Al Benson defends the Socialist party's viability in Wisconsin against The Milwaukee Journal's prediction of its disappearance, highlighting recent electoral victories in school board elections, mayoral powers referendum, and a wet majority in the April prohibition vote despite dry press support.
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The view expressed in The Milwaukee Journal, official spokesman of Wisconsin prohibitionists, that "the Socialist party may disappear in Wisconsin, really means that the local dry organ hopes that the Socialist party will disappear, according to Al Benson, county organizer for the Socialists.
Three Out of Five.
Benson pointed out that in the school board election the Socialists elected three out of five school board members in a citywide vote and that the power of Mayor Hoan to appoint aldermen when vacancies occur in the common council was upheld in a citywide referendum by a large majority.
In addition to this, said Benson, "while The Journal, as our official dry paper, called upon all of our citizens to vote dry on April and while only The Milwaukee Leader supported the wet cause editorially, the county went wet by a majority of 70,000."
Here to Stay.
Benson claims the editor of the dry organ will be stepping on his own whiskers before he will see the "disappearance" of the Socialist party.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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April
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Al Benson, Socialist county organizer, refutes The Milwaukee Journal's claim that the Socialist party may disappear in Wisconsin, citing recent electoral successes including three out of five school board members elected, upholding of Mayor Hoan's appointment power, and the county voting wet by 70,000 despite dry advocacy.